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>Isn't that technically queerbaiting in a sense?
Not really. Queerbaiting is showrunners and/or marketers intentionally teasing queers to gain their audience but never having any intention of actually delivering.
Arcane is a case of the animators and actors reading the script and going, "this seems fruity, can we make it explicitly fruity," the showrunners saying, "no way you fags," and the animators and actors proceeding to ignore them and tone up the gayness as much as possible without the straight showrunners catching on. So it's queercoding, but not queerbaiting.
However, if Riot had caught on to the queercoding Fortiche was doing and used it to market the show knowing the showrunners never intended on delivering, then it'd be queerbaiting. To my knowledge Riot didn't do that, so again, Arcane queercodes but it doesn't queerbait.
>Did you know they were dl?
I knew those two were. It's hard to avoid DLs around here, I was young, and had less self-respect back then.
>It's scary to imagine being used as a side piece to some adulterer.
It's pretty much inevitable. I prefer men aged 45-65. With any hook up there's a 70% chance I'll have to immediately drive home because I'll spot a framed picture of their wife and kids the second I step through their door. 20% are smart enough to hide the pictures. The rest are regular fags.
